“I think it’s interesting,” he added. “I think there is a part of Megan that people really love that is, at 18 she found a relationship and she stuck with it, and we’ve been together for coming on eight years now.”

Continued Green: “It will be our two-year wedding anniversary, but we’ve been together for a long time. She doesn’t represent what people are used to seeing in a young actress.”

Next up, the actor will star in the Fox drama pilot The Asset with Ali Larter. The show requires the two to get fairly intimate, and though he thinks filming sex scenes is “awkward,” Green said the fact that he and Larter are both married in real life actually made their onscreen romance easier.

“It was as steamy as two married professionals can get on a set,” he said of filming sex scenes with Larter. “It was great. She’s great. I loved working with her. She’s such a professional.”

“I’m so happy that I got to do that with someone else who was married,” he continued, “because you have a better understanding of, ‘We’re safe, let’s just do it, get it done, and get them what they need, and really be in it, and there’s no risk because I’m happily married and you’re happily married.’ ”